Sleep Deprivation...The Mother of My InventionMy name is Pamela Gonzalez, and I am the inventor of My Tot Clock.People often ask me how I came up with the idea for my product.My answer is easy…sleep deprivation was the mother of my invention!

It all started four years ago when my oldest son Gabriel was only 2-years old.His new little brother Anthony arrived and took over the baby room, along with everything in it…including the sacred crib.Gabriel was a great sleeper in his crib, but when he got into his big boy bed, all bets were off.He became a master negotiator before bedtime, he required mommy to be in the room before he would fall asleep, he would wake up in the middle of the night (sometimes multiple times), and finally he would end up in our bed.

This became our routine, which was 100% created by a mommy who didn’t have the heart or the strength to let her big boy keep crying it out.One night…or should I say the wee hours of the morning…I was putting Gabriel back to bed for the 2nd or 3rd time, when it dawned on me that the problem wasn’t that Gabriel loved waking up in the middle of the night and disturbing everyone's sleep, but that he had no idea what time it was!

So, I came up with what I thought was a great idea!I would tell Gabriel that he couldn't get out of bed until the sun woke up.Genius move, right?Well, not exactly.Gabriel woke up every hour to tell me that the sun was awake!I knew I needed something better than the sun to solve this problem!I needed to buy one of those clocks.You know, one of those clocks that changes colors, so children would know when to sleep and when it’s okay to get out of bed.After putting Gabriel back down…again, I hit the Internet (hey, I was up already!), and I started searching for the magic clock!I searched, and searched to no avail.The clock was nowhere to be found, so I vowed that night to invent it!